More than a dozen children gather a block away to wait for their school bus. The charge from the wire sent 1,000 watts of power at least three blocks up from where it fell.

"It's kind of scary," parent Jonathan Simko said. "Kids are there every morning."

"Our main concern was these kids," Wooten said. "This is a main bus stop for the junior high and high school kids, so we took all the proper measurements that we needed to try and keep the kids away and notified the people in the houses to stay inside the houses."

Power crews were called to the scene to work on cutting the power.

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"We wanted to kill the power here as soon as possible because if someone would have touched that sidewalk, if that wire would have burned a little bit more, our concern was charging that fence with over 1,000 watts and someone could have gotten hurt," Wooten said.

Crews were able to kill the power quickly. They said a nearby transformer that exploded could be to blame for the fallen wire. There was no word on how long it will take to restore power.

No one was hurt.

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